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Using fMRI scans, we can now see what meditation does to the brain. The author suggests it can lead to a happier, more productive, and creative life. And even two minutes a day can do wonders.<p>Ever since my dad tried to convince me to meditate when I was about 12, I’ve been fairly skeptical of this …

Want to work smarter, not harder? Learn from the best.<p>Occasionally, I stumble on my own productivity tools and strategies, but mostly I borrow them from others.<p>So does Ryan Holiday, the author of the best-selling The Obstacle Is the Way (a really great book) and the compulsively readable <i>Trust Me,</i> …

<b>I'm ankle-deep in good, cold, highland water</b> when it occurs to me that if Scotch whisky were to take human form — to rise up and solidify into a two-armed, two-legged, living creature — it would probably resemble the man striding dry-footed through the heather and gorse ahead of me.<p>That man is Alan …

Much of Scotland's best whisky actually comes from its backwoods. Herein, a geographic guide to the European coastline with the world's most unexplored malts.<p><b>Most of the single-malt</b> Scotch we drink here in the U.S. comes from just two parts of that rugged and stubborn land. The massive pregnant …

Next week in this space, I'll be looking in some depth at the world of Scotch whisky, but first, I want to clarify a point of some confusion: the distinction between single malt and blended whisky.<p>Consumers and even some bartenders have a misconception that single-malt Scotch is not a blended …